FAREWELL 2013, WITH CHEERS

[Geee]

American Spectator:

Why all the grouching and complaining about 2013? Was it that bad? In the perspective of the long record of human folly and perversity? In comparison with 1941 or ’42? With reference to the year our forces marched into an ambush at a place called Kasserine, or less than 10 years later, when they very nearly were over run by Chicom hordes streaming across the Yalu River? Buck up, people! There have been worse moments in the Republic’s epic history, and it would not be epic were there no occasions to fear for its success and even survival.

 

By any objective reckoning, the trials and disappointments of 2013 are little more than slight dips in the forward march of American civilization. We may be dismayed by the spectacle of a federal government that seems like nothing so much as an obese slob on a binge, eating and drinking and farting to such a degree he cannot even recognize what an embarrassment he is to his friends and family, but there are students of our national story who think this is not unusual. Our government rises to the occasion when the situation becomes really dire, and the rest of the time it just plods along.

 

As Mike Bloomberg turns over the keys of New York to Bill de Blasio, some observers fear that the promised city’s 20-year run is over, about to be shattered by a retrograde progressive — what a funny oxymoron — applying tried and false ideas for making things better.